OBJECTIVE: To gain a responsible career position as Project Manager, utilizing over fifteen years of comprehensive technical skills, project management and training expertise to pursue a proactive and committed approach to achieving company goals.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

• Architecture/Software Development Professional with significant experience in the analysis, design, testing, and deployment of innovative systems and solutions critical to clients' evolving business requirements.
• Proficiencies encompass business process identification and definition, requirements planning, and engineering of architecture, most notably, for a system that established a paradigm in the Information Technology industry.
• Background includes planning and management of Internet and Intranet-based projects, with emphasis in agile development of Web Portal Technology as well as database design and administration.
• A highly effective leader and a tenacious problem solver demonstrating the ability to lead teams to consistently positive outcomes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

• Facilitated in deploying the BEA Aqualogic 6.02 Collaboration to promote real-time documentation workflow between client and broker. This open-architecture technology promoted real-time use of task management, event notification and document management with easy access to historical data.
• Conducted re-structuring and standardization of Extranet Portals BEA Aqualogic 6.02 providing integration as well as collaborative services to clients. Extranet Portal included services such as industry specific RSS Feeds, Single Sign on to third party applications providing seamless integration of workspace.
• Wrote requirements specifications, defining functionality to successfully implement, Intranet communities for the various Practice lines such as Law Compliance, Management Risk, Casualty etc. Designed document upload and retrieval system using the BEA Aqualogic knowledge directory to be used across all internal communities.
• Re-designed the extensive Human Resources Intranet community portal to incorporate seamless transition for end of year activities such benefits open enrollment, change in benefits plans, payroll, tuition etc. The re-design included extensive customization of BEA Aqualogic Publisher to deliver portlet and page specific content and historical retrieval of data.
• Conducted detailed analysis, wrote requirement specifications, defining functionality for French translations of Canadian Integro group employee's Professional Biographies in compliance with regulations of French speaking regions of Canada. This was accomplished using XML based multi-language/region translation tags in an existing application that was designed for the English language. Published project plan to track progress of this initiative.
• Conducted detailed analysis, wrote requirement specifications, defining functionality as well as design for a new application to provide Insurance service providers by region, industry, coverage and AM-Best ratings.
• Successfully designed and implemented a pilot Blog Community to be used internally by various brokers of the Management Risk practice. The blog community facilitated RSS Feeds, links and access to various research sites, thereby enhancing a collaborative workspace for all research and industry data.
• Published weekly status report on extranet portal development pipeline indicating new, in-development and deployed extranet portals to senior management.
• Created templates for various portal based requests such as Broker Request Form for Extranet Portal, Copy deck for Intranet portal - Community request/re-design request.
• Proposed design and estimation of resources for Intranet Portal localization to deliver and store content for employees based in other countries.

Confidential

Lead Architect/Project Manager

• Contributed to the organizations' capture of the 2004 CIO 100 Award, whose criteria was unique practices and substantial results in the field of Information Technology.
• Played a pivotal role in positioning the organization as the winner of NEBATA's New England Business and Technology Association's 6th annual award for exceptional leadership at the intersection of business and technology .

Confidential

Project Management

• Analyzed business processes and determined measures effective in streamlining it by way of new programs and enhancements for/upgrades to existing systems.
• Originated and assured timely communication of comprehensive project plans detailing implementation and post implementation strategies.
• Estimated resource requirements and established service/delivery time frames for various projects.
• Assembled project teams prioritized, scheduled, and delegated work assignments to maximize productivity.
• Formulated and enforced sophisticated standards concerning systems development, testing, and documentation, evaluate and ensure their adequacy and, when applicable, support their subsequent upgrading, marketing, and sales.
• This included creation of test case scenarios and sample input, analysis of user feedback, quality assurance review of code, and troubleshooting and modification of the system, prior to each component's migration to the production environment. Conducted and participated in meetings with internal client groups, management, and cross-functional teams. Built consensus and promoted progress toward goals common to all parties, serving as a technical resource in investigating and resolving problem issues.
• Introduced and presented new or enhanced Technology to in-house clients, to optimize its utilization.

Confidential

Systems Engineering Software Development

• Simultaneous to optimally maintaining the existing system, developed the new architecture, tier-by-tier.
• Wrote entrance criteria and requirements specifications, defining functionality of the new, Object-Oriented, Microsoft-based system designed to create an organizational presence on the Internet, support revenue retention, and generate a new and viable source of income for the organization.
• Conducted detailed needs analyses to determine objectives and performance requirements of architecture to be created and applications to be introduced or modified, including but not limited to the transitioning of a paper-based information management environment to a state-of-the-art Extranet system utilized by a quasi-governmental State agency providing 75 billion annually in financing for housing.
• Microsoft NET Framework for the loan underwriting portal, BEA Aqualogic Portal 5.01 , including customization of API's for delegated' user authentication and administration to provide adaptability for the presentation tier, NET Framework for the application tier, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for the back-end database, data access layer implemented in ADO.NET and VB.NET.
• Created this system through use of the following Technologies:
• Successfully implemented, the new system facilitated e-commerce business-to-business initiatives: the lending process as managed by external banking institutions.
• Rules Engine and Loan Administrator checks implemented via XML and VB NET, LDAP Methodology to ensure system security user rights , including Active Directory in Application Mode ADAM for storage of user and group information as well as validation of portal users via web services.
• Microsoft Biz Talk Server 2004 for messaging service, to communicate with external service providers, such as FNMA Fanny Mae , Loan Origination systems and Back-end systems.
• Facilitation of an audit trail via SQL insert/update/delete triggers imbedded into the system, OTX integration, and the Pre-Qualification application designed as Web service WSDL, SOAP calls .
• Utilized other technologies, not limited to ASP.Net, C , XSL, XSLT, and UML as well as applications such as Visio, MS-Project, SourceSafe, and Crystal Reports.
• This extremely complex, five-phase project demanded and enabled the following functions:
• Automation and simplification of mortgage origination processes.
• Addition of views to the Web-based application providing analysis of loan pipelines as well as associated fee assessments
• Decommissioning of the legacy system, transitioning of data to the new application, and expansion of the system to accommodate viewing of the underwriting function for policies both approved and cancelled. This phase of the project required modification of the logical and physical database design to support new schema designs for ECTL Extract, Cleanse, Transformation, and Loading logic and specifications.
• Delivery of pre-loan application tools that supported determination of loan options, contingent upon borrowers financial histories and debt-to-equity ratio as well as lenders' profiles. This phase of the project also allowed for the provision of mortgage insurance servicing and mortgage payment protection insurance components, based upon established criteria
• Finalizing the Portal Technology through consolidation into SOA architecture, a strategy that created a single repository for all of the above-mentioned data as well as strengthened the security of that information against data theft.